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⭐️BBC Food & Farming Awards Winner 2024⭐️
👨‍🍳 Community Chef making food accessible to all
🍴 Founder of @warrenmanselst @ceginhedyn

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Cegin is 4 years old this month!

And by way of celebrating, we met outside of the canteen at Bremenda Farm with our friends from Bwyd Sir Gar.

We were greeted by Piers Lunt who showed us around the farm where so many of the vegetables that we cook up at Cegin are grown.

He explained to us the vision they have for a food resilient future that was truly inspiring and gave us all hope.

Afterwards, we sat down for a brilliant "bring and share" lunch and sang a hearty rendition of Happy Birthday to Cegin.

We're back in the canteen tomorrow and Wednesday, so come along and see us!

Open 10am-2pm 🫜🫘🍰

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Were open today 10am-2pm and this is for dessert ☝️😋 Our Turmeric and Orange Traybake never fails to please, so come and try for yourself!

We're also cooking up a Fasolia (rich tomato and bean stew) which comes woth a side of lemon Cous Cous 😋 and all our usual sides.

See you later 🌿

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We were absolutely delighted to welcome a wonderful group of students all the way from the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Machynlleth.

As part of their journey down to Carmarthen, they stopped by our spaces at the Allotment and Canteen to share a meal, exchange ideas, and experience firsthand how we use food to build local resilience and connection.

We're open Tuesday & Wednesday, 10-2 🥦🍊 please see pics for menu 🌿

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We were absolutely delighted to welcome a wonderful group of students all the way from the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) in Machynlleth.

As part of their journey down to Carmarthen, they stopped by our spaces at the Allotment and Canteen to share a meal, exchange ideas, and experience firsthand how we use food to build local resilience and connection.

We're open Tuesday & Wednesday, 10-2 🥦🍊 please see pics for menu 🌿

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🍽️ On the Menu This Week

Our kitchen team is celebrating this harvest by making squash the absolute star of the show. Pull up a chair this week to try our Roasted Allotment Crown Prince Squash & Coconut Dhal on Tuesday and Butternut Squash Stew on Wednesday served up hot with a side of community warmth. And check out our pudding…Cegins famous Apple Cake!

Because we run on a pay-what-you-can basis, everyone in our community gets to celebrate this harvest together. Whether you are paying it forward to support our project or need a nourishing meal on us, there is a bowl of our home-grown squash waiting for you

Hope to see you this Tuesday and Wednesday.
And don't forget it's Allotment Volunteering day tomorrow 🌿

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This is what we mean when we say we want The Warren to be more than a restaurant.

Yesterday, almost a year to the day since we closed our doors, this old building was absolutely full of life again.

Together with Sophie from @ein_cegin and Amie from @aberystwyth.university we hosted a Community Inspiration Day, bringing together people doing brilliant things around community meals, growing, local food and food resilience across West Wales.

And it felt like exactly what this building should be doing when we’re not open as a restaurant.

We’re now open to the public Friday and Saturday evenings and for Sunday lunch. But that leaves a lot of hours when we’ve got a kitchen, tables, coffee machine, meeting space and a building right in the middle of Carmarthen sitting here.

We don’t want it sitting empty.

We want community meals. Workshops. Talks. Training. Volunteer days. Cookery sessions. Supper clubs. Skill sharing. Growers and producers. Collaborations. And people with good ideas that maybe don’t have a home yet.

Yesterday was a pretty lovely example of what that can look like.

Someone described all these different community projects as pebbles being dropped into water. Each creates its own ripple, but eventually those ripples start meeting.

We’d quite like The Warren to be one of the places where those ripples meet.

Tag someone we should be talking to. Or message us if you’ve got something you’d like to explore together.

We’re still working out what this next version of The Warren looks like.

Maybe you can help us work it out.

The restaurant might only be open three days a week. The building doesn’t have to be.

#carmarthen

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Ever wondered where the fresh ingredients in your bowls at Cegin Hedyn come from? 🌱

When you eat with us on Lammas Street, you’re stepping into a beautiful, local food loop right here in Carmarthenshire. ✨

Here is how the magic happens:

🧑‍🌾 The Growers: Hard-working local legends like our own allotment volanteers, Bremenda Farm, Gwynfe Growers, Tir Awel, Peniel Sunrise Market Garden, and Glasbren grow incredible, nutrient-dense food while healing the soil.

🍲 The Kitchen: We buy directly from them to keep money in the local economy, and we rescue farm gluts (like this week’s surplus runner beans!) and turn them into vibrant, plant-based meals.

🤝 The Table: Because we use a pay-what-you-can model, we shatter the financial barrier to organic, high-quality food. Every single person who sits down with us eats the exact same meal grown in local soil—regardless of what’s in their wallet.

Food justice starts from the ground up, and you make it happen every time you pull up a chair. 💚

✨ How to support the loop this week:
1️⃣ Come down and enjoy a seasonal bowl with us.
2️⃣ Pay it forward if you can to help us keep buying from local farmers at a fair price.
3️⃣ Drop us a message to volunteer in the kitchen or at our Community Allotment!

See you at the table! 👋

#CeginHedyn #Carmarthen #FoodJustice #PayWhatYouCan #SupportLocalGrowers

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We've beautiful produce in from our lovely allotment volanteers this morning! It's all going to converted into a delicious lunch, so call in and see us today.

We're open 10am for homemade toast, jams and cakes.

12pm-2pm for our Tuesday Dhal. Today we have a Leek & Mushroom Red Lentil Dhal with Courgette Brownies for dessert.

Hope to see you later 🥗❤️

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🔥FEAST FROM THE FLAMES @ceginhedyn @ethicalchef 🔥 #Harvest2026

There’s something about cooking over fire that feels perfectly suited to harvest time — smoke in the air, embers glowing, vegetables blistering and charring until their flavours are transformed.

For our Harvest Celebration, we were delighted to collaborate with Cegin Hedyn, a local social enterprise who run a Community pay-as-you-feel canteen and allotment. The team of @ethicalchef and @ceginhedyn volunteers brought their brilliant fire cooking to the heart of the celebration. Cooking over a fire cage, they turned our seasonal harvest into something truly special - including smoky, charred aubergine and beetroot, cooked right over the flames.

It was a beautiful meeting of people, produce and place: vegetables grown from the land, cooked over fire, and shared by over 100 people metres from where it was grown.

Collaborations like this between projects with similar aims and values bring our events so much more to life!

We hope you enjoyed your food!! Let us know in the comments below how it was…

Cegin Hedyn’s approach to cooking is rooted in seasonality, local produce and the alchemy of fire - making the most of what’s available and allowing the ingredients to shine.

A celebration of the harvest in every sense. 🔥

@tnlcommunityfund
📷 @a_great_alternative

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A little look at Cafe Cegin Hedyn's front and behind the scenes action 😂

Hope to see you tomorrow to try our wholesome Mediterranean Roasted Vegetable Traybake with a delicious Almond & Chocolate Cake for dessert 😋

Open 10am - 2pm 😊🍫🍰

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👨‍🍳 HAVE YOU SEEN OUR ‘ASK THE EXPERT’ SERIES YET?

So far, nine amazing experts have shared their advice on why cooking matters and how we can encourage more children to cook. 🍳

⭐ ONE THING THEY ALL AGREE ON: IT’S SO IMPORTANT TO GET CHILDREN INTO THE KITCHEN! ⭐

Their messages have been inspiring, honest and packed with brilliant advice for the next generation of young cooks.

Catch up !—and stay tuned, because we cannot wait to share even more expert advice with you! 👀

#CeginMrHenry #AskTheExpert #YoungCooks #FoodEducation #skillsforlife

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Some sides from today's menu and Apple Cake!

We'll be back again tomorrow 10am-2pm with lunch starting at 12pm.

On the menu tomorrow we have a smoky Spanish style lentil, leek & potato stew with more cake 🥰

Homemade toast available from 10am 🍏🫒🫘

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A great day of talks, workshops, market garden tours and more, looking at sustainable food systems and healthy bio regions.
#sustainablefoodsystems #communityfarm #community

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